Later on I laughed to hear how Lowrey used Big Bill Broonzy’s Black, Brown, and White
From
They says: “If you was white,
You’s alright,
If you was brown,
Stick around,
But if you’s black, oh, brother,
Get back, get back, get back.”
to
when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right.
I can’t find a transcript online yet, The transcript is here (thanks, Marcus!) and I’m sure I missed many references. So I wonder, from the mountains of New Hampshire to the redwood forest, did anyone here pick up anything else?
Let all those who do justice and love mercy say amen.
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marcus-graly says
I left after Obama’s speech and missed it.
marcus-graly says
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…
laurel says
jane says
from the hymns I sang in my childhood in the Congregational Church. I can’t remember which now, but was surprised and pleased and listened carefully to the rest of the benediction.
jane says
The transcript is up. (I don’t know how to embed something…)
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p>The other hymns lines which I caught were “…the whole world in his hands”, and ‘…all the saints who from their labors rest”.
fieldscornerguy says
Lowery’s words may have been more moving for me than Obama’s today. Amazing.
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p>I hadn’t realized that the song he was referencing was Big Bill Broonzy’s. Thanks for that info.
sabutai says
Only if you’re a Christian. Short of wandering the aisles and slapping every Hindu, Jew, Catholic (note how he ended the Our Father), nonbeliever, and all others he could, Warren was an embarrassment to any Christian who actually believes that God’s house holds many rooms.
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p>A nauseating attempt at prayer from a nauseating huckster.
sabutai says
Not to step all over what you said. Rev. Lowery’s benediction was a human and humane outreach equally to the American people and whichever force in which they choose to believe.
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p>It was a stark contrast between living the Word of God, and selling it.
david says
The point is that I was expecting far worse from him. Ending with the Lord’s Prayer was of course wildly inappropriate, but I would have been very surprised if he had actually done it right.